Social security has been playing an important role in the socio-economic development plans of Vietnam as well as in the public awareness. It became an important measure for dealing with the price storm and impact of the economic downturn that started from 2008. This article tries to give an overview of the current social security system of Vietnam from the policy perspective and its development trend with a review of the government’s reaction toward the economic downturn.
A recent document of the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that at the beginning of the twenty-first century, access to any form of social protection remains a dream for 80% of the world’s population.1 Social security in India exists only for 7% of the workers - those who are employed in the so- called formal sector. Why so many in India are denied the benefit of social security and what could be our strategy for ‘Social Security for All’?
The Philippines is once again in the limelight of international human and labour rights community and advocates as the International Labour Organization (ILO) conducted its high-level mission from 22 to 29 September 2009, based on complaints of violation of one of its fundamental conventions: No. 87, or the convention on freedom of association and protection of the right to organize.
40,000 riot police descend on a factory that a group of striking auto workers have occupied, with helicopters, tear gas, water cannons, tazer guns. What is the crime taking place? ‘Obstruction of business’!
Who are the ‘criminals’, according to this government? The hundreds of workers who are exercising their right to strike – but a right which the government criminalizes when exercised, except under a very narrow set of conditions, so narrow that it virtually renders the right meaningless.